Monday, July 13, 2015

Vroom! Vroom! - finally, more cars are rolling!

After my last post (HERE), I was pretty excited about building and painting little cars again. Here's the painted version of my modern day ride, the Flammencruizer!

I painted the whole car in the polished silver first, and then added the rusty patches and rusty flames.

And at the same time I painted up the silver Interceptor, known to the Fury Road production crew as Razor Cola. I think it turned out pretty nicely. Once I've decided how I want to do the spike droppers I'll add those to the rear.

Having a handful of the parts I sculpted for Brigade Games on hand, all I had to do was trawl through my box of loose cars and pick out a few to glue stuff on. As I wanted some quick progress, I chose these two "Jurassic World" vehicles to get the minimal activity treatment. No cutting, drilling, or grinding, just gluing. The one on the left already has a very interesting profile; lots of lumps, bumps, and random stowage. The one on the right felt like a really solid beast, so it got the heavy ramplate, and armor plates all round. Both received machine guns, the one on the left a .50-cal style, the right a mini-gun style.

And I glued a harpoon launcher and a flamer onto my monster truck, my take on Bigfoot.

Quick questions (but may no be quick answers!) - 1. How do you jack up the rear ends (or were they already jacked up)?2. For the monster truck, where did you get/how did you do the underslung suspension?

1. Sometimes (particularly if it's a car with a plastic underbody), I'll put the axle on the underside of the underbody. Usually that gives a reasonable extra lift (3-4mm). If needed I'll add a few strips of plasticard to raise it higher. If the car has a metal underbody (only encountered a couple so far) I've noticed they have extra bracing which makes the first method unworkable. In this case I keep the axle in its original position and then bulk out the space inside the car body at the back with plasticard or putty.2. The monster truck is from HotWheels' current range of monster trucks, so it has the big suspension already on it : )

Unfortunately not dave but my head did swell slightly at the mere suggestion!However my own fumbling attempts at the post apoc genre are far too crude for professional publication! (Meltaburn.blogspot.com)Having heard alot about it I really think I need to order a back issue now.

Those are super cool, Dave - loving the kits and what you're doing with them, totally takes me back to the 80's and pushing around little cardboard tokens. You oughtta paint a little AADA (American Autoduel Association) bumper sticker on one of 'em!

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